The Big Event. . . Day 2, Tuesday, Load In

One of the hardest things about this event was the early mornings. It's not like we had to get up before 8 a.m. or anything but it's a challenge for 3/4's of my family to be up and functional before 10 a.m. Gloria loves to be at The Egyptian, however, so she drug herself out of bed everyday of the week in order to be in on all the action. She still wasn't really functional before noon though:

Tuesday was load-in day so all of this stuff. . .


. . . had to be loaded into the truck. . .


. . . so it could be loaded into The Egyptian:

This is my Ramsa monitor board:

It's heavy and a pain to haul around but I learned how to run monitors on it so it has a special place in my heart. The guys aren't quite so attached to it since it almost breaks their backs every time we use it. . .

I refuse to run monitors for shows like this for obvious reasons so this was Kurt's little corner for the remainder of the week:

When Rob and Kurt worked on the sound system in the theater a couple of months ago, they made it very possible and very easy for us to tie in to the house system. Less speakers for us to load, unload and hook up. These are already in place so no Genie lifts were required. . .

After everything was loaded into the theater, it was time to set things up. Kurt ran the socapex lighting cables up over the wall and into the balcony for the lighting guys:

This is the view from the balcony down onto the stage that we set up on Monday:

The lighting crew and the television crew loaded in about the same time we did so there were quite a few different things going on. It was interesting to watch and to see everyone working together to get this done:

By early evening, everything was hooked up and working the way it was supposed to. Gloria helped us do a line check on all of the mic channels and then had the stage to herself to sing to her imaginary audience:

Two days down, four to go. . .